Sardi's is a continental restaurant located at 234 West 44th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City.
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11 Facts About Sardi's
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Sardi's hired a Russian refugee named Alex Gard to draw Broadway celebrities.
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Sardi's grossed about $1 million in annual revenue by the late 1950s.
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Sardi family owned the restaurant for six decades, until 1984, when Sardi's was sold to Show Biz Restaurant Inc At the time, George Lang Corporation was planning a renovation of the restaurant in the near future.
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Curtain Up at Sardi's contains nearly 300 recipes ranging from a grilled cheese sandwich to a Champagne cocktail.
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Several alternate locations of Sardi's have been opened over the years, but all were later closed or sold off.
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In 1932, a Los Angeles location of Sardi's opened on Hollywood Boulevard, where it was similarly popular with celebrities.
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Sardi's is the birthplace of the Tony Award; after Antoinette Perry's death in 1946, her partner, theatrical producer and director Brock Pemberton, was eating lunch at Sardi's when he came up with the idea of a theater award to be given in Perry's honor.
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For many years Sardi's was the location where Tony Award nominations were announced.
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Sardi's is the venue for the presentation of the Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as many other Broadway events, press conferences, and celebrations.
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Sardi's was replaced by Richard Baratz, a banknote and certificate engraver by profession, who was originally from Brooklyn and had been hired through a contest for a new caricaturist.
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